Crossword Puzzle Number 1141 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker.
5. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
10. An honorary degree in science.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. A worker who oils engines or machinery.
15. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
16. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
17. In bed.
19. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
23. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
24. A genus of Limacidae.
26. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
29. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
33. A Muslim place of worship.
36. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
38. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water.
43. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
45. A Russian river.
46. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
54. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. Fiddler crabs.
60. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
61. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
62. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
63. A distinct feature or element in a problem.
64. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

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1. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
2. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A language group of the Hokan family.
5. A state of southwestern India.
6. Humorously vulgar.
7. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
8. Wish harm upon.
9. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. The complete duration of something.
11. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
12. An informal term for a father.
18. Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio.
20. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
25. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
27. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
28. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
30. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. Type genus of the Ranidae.
34. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
35. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
37. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
40. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
42. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
44. Squash bugs.
47. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
49. Expel, as of gases and odors.
50. A Hindu prince or king in India.
51. Very dark black.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
56. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
57. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.

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